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The Curb

Welcome to The Curb. A show that's all about Australian culture, film reviews, interviews, and a whole lot more... 

Here, you'll find discussions with Australian creatives about their work and their role in Australian culture. 

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Update frequency
every 2 days
Average duration
40 minutes
Episodes
365
Years Active
2016 - 2025
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Archie Lush, Alex Power & Mark Zanosov on building the simmering heat of their Freo-shot short Blunt

Archie Lush, Alex Power & Mark Zanosov on building the simmering heat of their Freo-shot short Blunt

Co-writer and actor Archie Lush, director Alex Power, and producer Mark Zanosov take us to the streets of Fremantle, Western Australia, where their short film Blunt pushes us into the simmering heat …

00:34:02  |   Sun 18 May 2025
Genevieve Bailey on the importance of Always Listening to stories of struggles with mental health

Genevieve Bailey on the importance of Always Listening to stories of struggles with mental health

Genevieve Bailey is a documentarian who has drawn attention to the impact of societal struggles with mental illness through her empathetic and nurturing body of work. With feature films like I Am Ele…

00:50:49  |   Wed 14 May 2025
Karan Kandhari and Radhika Apte on the hilariously aggressive punk film Sister Midnight

Karan Kandhari and Radhika Apte on the hilariously aggressive punk film Sister Midnight

Nadine Whitney had the wonderful opportunity to speak with Karan Kandhari and Radhika Apte about Sister Midnight and how as original and ‘weird’ as it is, it’s also representative of people who are r…

00:15:35  |   Wed 14 May 2025
Robert Connolly talks about bringing Nicolas Cage to the salty sea of The Surfer

Robert Connolly talks about bringing Nicolas Cage to the salty sea of The Surfer

Lorcan Finnegan's wild and weird trip-fest flick The Surfer is one that's had local audiences salivating at the prospect of its arrival. That anticipation went into hyperdrive when Oscar winning acto…

00:25:27  |   Tue 13 May 2025
Jacob Richardson on heading to Greece for his feature film debut The Aegean

Jacob Richardson on heading to Greece for his feature film debut The Aegean

Jacob Richardson's feature film debut The Aegean sees the Queensland based writer-director embrace the Grecian story of a widower, Hector (Costas Mandylor), who finds himself in the orbit of Khristos…

00:47:57  |   Mon 12 May 2025
Allison Tyra talks about the over 600 stories that make up her essential book Uncredited: Women's Overlooked, Misattributed & Stolen Work

Allison Tyra talks about the over 600 stories that make up her essential book Uncredited: Women's Overlooked, Misattributed & Stolen Work

With her essential website Infinite-Women.com, Allison Tyra has built a deep database that contains more than 6000 biographies from around the world and throughout history, documenting the biographie…

00:51:19  |   Thu 08 May 2025
Kelly Schilling on working with Marta Dusseldorp and building the emotional truth of With or Without You

Kelly Schilling on working with Marta Dusseldorp and building the emotional truth of With or Without You

Kelly Schilling's feature debut film With or Without You is the powerful and impactful story of a mother, Sharon (Marta Dusseldorp) and a daughter, Chloe (Melina Vidler), who are forced to navigate t…

00:31:40  |   Thu 08 May 2025
Cian Mungatj McCue and Sarah Price on their new First Nations screen industry initiative Damulgurra Stories

Cian Mungatj McCue and Sarah Price on their new First Nations screen industry initiative Damulgurra Stories

One of the more exciting news points in recent weeks has been the announcement of the new First Nations initiative Damulgurra Stories. Founded by Larrakia man Cian Mungatj McCue, of Moogie Down Produ…

00:21:31  |   Mon 05 May 2025
Lars and the Real Girl Umbrella Entertainment Blu-Ray Collectors Edition Review

Lars and the Real Girl Umbrella Entertainment Blu-Ray Collectors Edition Review

Lars and the Real Girl is Craig Gillespie's 2007 indie comedy-drama about a man who has an unconventional relationship with a sex doll. That man is a young Ryan Gosling, who is supported by Emily Mor…

00:19:11  |   Wed 30 Apr 2025
Gold Coast Film Festival: Jane Larkin on the lived-in perspective of her elite sports drama The Edge

Gold Coast Film Festival: Jane Larkin on the lived-in perspective of her elite sports drama The Edge

Before commencing her career as a filmmaker, Jane Larkin was an Australian representative sprinter, pushing her body to the limits on the track. In the moments of preparation, cooldowns, and every mi…

00:40:13  |   Mon 28 Apr 2025
German Film Festival: Andres Veiel on the urgency of his new documentary Riefenstahl

German Film Festival: Andres Veiel on the urgency of his new documentary Riefenstahl

Andres Veiel's latest documentary, Riefenstahl, delves into the dark and deep archive of the private estate of Leni Riefenstahl, exposing the deep ties the filmmaker had with the Nazi regime. Andres …

00:14:44  |   Sun 27 Apr 2025
Saskia Archer on building a foundation of empathy in her acting

Saskia Archer on building a foundation of empathy in her acting

Saskia Archer is an actor on the rise. From the streets of Sydney, to the turf of Tasmania where she embarked on a path to become a paramedic, to a shift to WA where she built her acting skills at th…

00:40:50  |   Wed 23 Apr 2025
Eli Craig has a message to horror audiences: go see Clown in the Cornfield in cinemas if you want sequels

Eli Craig has a message to horror audiences: go see Clown in the Cornfield in cinemas if you want sequels

Eli Craig smashed onto the slasher scene with his genre-defying comedy event Tucker & Dale VS Evil, and he's back with another slasher that upends expectations: Clown in a Cornfield.

Clown in a Cornfi…

00:16:28  |   Tue 22 Apr 2025
Mother of Chooks co-director Jesse Leaman on the joy of making a film with his mum

Mother of Chooks co-director Jesse Leaman on the joy of making a film with his mum

Every so often, you sit down to watch a film, and find that it unexpectedly fills a hole you didn't know you had in your life. You might not know you needed a charming, dose of positivity in that mom…

00:36:09  |   Sun 20 Apr 2025
How Umbrella Entertainment physical media essays are written

How Umbrella Entertainment physical media essays are written

And we're back with another review discussion with myself, Andrew, and my colleague Nadine Whitney. In this episode, we discuss the work that we both did on the Umbrella releases of Eyes Without a Fa…

01:00:32  |   Fri 18 Apr 2025
Fantastic Film Festival: Bluebird director Darwin Schulze talks about his creative vision to bring adventure back to Australian screens

Fantastic Film Festival: Bluebird director Darwin Schulze talks about his creative vision to bring adventure back to Australian screens

ion to our humanity. At twelve years of age, Darwin won the award for Best Film by a Child Producer, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing at the KidzFlicks awards for his short film Red Panda Man. H…

00:35:26  |   Fri 18 Apr 2025
The Correspondent director Kriv Stenders  on the need to support a free press in 2025

The Correspondent director Kriv Stenders on the need to support a free press in 2025

In December 2013, Australian journalist Peter Greste, alongside fellow Al Jazeera colleagues Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, were arrested in Cairo, Egypt under charges of holding illegal meet…

00:29:03  |   Wed 16 Apr 2025
Darcy Newton and Luca Catalano Get Raucous and Loud with their Kingswood Doc CLAPTRAP

Darcy Newton and Luca Catalano Get Raucous and Loud with their Kingswood Doc CLAPTRAP

Aussie band Kingswood are rock royalty, having played shows with AC/DC and The Hives, tearing down the rooves of Aussie venues in equal measure with their unique brand of raucous rock. In 2024, the b…

00:27:04  |   Thu 03 Apr 2025
Lou Sanz on engaging with empathy with the pitch black comedy Audrey

Lou Sanz on engaging with empathy with the pitch black comedy Audrey

In 2024, director Natalie Bailey and writer Lou Sanz unleashed Audrey onto audiences in Australia and America. Here's a film that I called a caustic comedy that rains like refreshing acid rain. Here'…

01:07:43  |   Wed 19 Mar 2025
Alice Maio Mackay on the new wave of transgender cinema

Alice Maio Mackay on the new wave of transgender cinema

At just twenty years old, transgender wunderkind Alice Maio Mackay has crafted a filmography that would make most seasoned professionals envious. Alice's filmography is built within a defiantly indep…

00:51:12  |   Wed 19 Mar 2025
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